CIO and CTOs should clearly articulate the vision of a virtualized server and storage infrastructure, and initiate test and pilot projects to develop the internal skills necessary to integrate the technology implementations. Often these two initiatives are separate and occur at different times for different reasons. Aligning virtualization visions can lead to incremental business value.

New page: CIO and CTOs should clearly articulate the vision of a [[Consolidation 2.0: Combining server and storage virtualization|virtualized server and storage]] infrastructure, and initiate test a...